The Waikato is a local government region of the upper North Island of New Zealand. The region stretches from Coromandel Peninsula in the north, to the north-eastern slopes of Mount Ruapehu in the south, and spans the North Island from the west coast, through the Waikato and Hauraki to Coromandel Peninsula on the east coast. Broadly, the extent of the region is the Waikato River catchment.
The name for the region is taken from the Waikato River; waikato is a Māori word traditionally translated as "flowing water".
Before the arrival of Europeans, the Waikato contained the third most densely populated part of New Zealand, after Northland/Auckland and the Bay of Plenty. The Waikato rohe (area) was inhabited by iwi (tribes) such as those of the Tainui confederation, including Waikato and Ngāti Toa who conquered the native inhabitants about 1450 according to Tainui historians, finally destroying them at a battle at Aratiatia. Between about 1750 and 1842 the area was subject to a large number of invasions by other Māori iwi and hapu confederations and large scale population migrations took place by a number of hapu and iwi. The largest battle ever fought in New Zealand took place near Ohaupo about 1790–1805, between two competing alliances of hapu. During the latter stages of this volatile period, known as the Musket Wars (1807–1845), conflict led to a migration south to Taranaki and eventually Kapiti Island.
Date | Departure | Arrival | Pilot | Aircraft | Landing rate | Distance | Flight time | ||
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11NOV24 0652Z | NZWR | NZHN | Jason F/Petroho | Socata TBM-850 (TBM8) | -51 ft/m | 137 nm | 00:41 | View | |
11NOV24 0040Z | NZWU | NZHN | Hurrikane Alpha | Beechcraft G36 Bonanza (BE36) | -145 ft/m | 135 nm | 00:48 | View | |
02NOV24 2302Z | NZAA | NZHN | Aaron Priest | Cessna 700 Citation Longitude (C700) | -238 ft/m | 150 nm | 00:35 | View | |
02NOV24 0954Z | NZAA | NZHN | Róbert Bencsik | Beechcraft Super King Air 350 (B350) | -102 ft/m | 107 nm | 00:28 | View | |
02NOV24 0856Z | NZAA | NZHN | Unknown | Cessna 525C Citation CJ4 (C25C) | -422 ft/m | 104 nm | 00:23 | View | |
02NOV24 0456Z | NZNR | NZHN | Scotty Clifford | Canadair Regional Jet CRJ-550/700 (CRJ7) | -152 ft/m | 148 nm | 00:32 | View | |
02NOV24 0243Z | NZAA | NZHN | Jonathan Araujo | Cessna 414 Chancellor (C414) | -64 ft/m | 107 nm | 00:36 | View | |
02NOV24 0235Z | NZAA | NZHN | Carlo | Embraer 170/175 (E170) | -201 ft/m | 120 nm | 00:12 | View | |
02NOV24 0104Z | NZAA | NZHN | Bwana | Cirrus SR-22 (SR22) | -113 ft/m | 106 nm | 00:36 | View | |
02NOV24 0103Z | NZAA | NZHN | ExcessivelySalty | Cirrus SR-22 (SR22) | -108 ft/m | 109 nm | 00:36 | View | |
25OCT24 1848Z | NZWN | NZHN | Pdb0001 | Embraer Phenom 300 (E55P) | -90 ft/m | 209 nm | 00:42 | View | |
16OCT24 0746Z | NZWR | NZHN | Hugbald | Beechcraft Duchess (BE76) | -139 ft/m | 152 nm | 01:00 | View | |
10OCT24 1506Z | NZSL | NZHN | XxGuI2eNxX | Cessna Caravan (C208) | -82 ft/m | 102 nm | 00:37 | View | |
03OCT24 1752Z | NZCH | NZHN | Rompasta | ATR ATR-72-600 (AT76) | -174 ft/m | 404 nm | 01:54 | View | |
27SEP24 1554Z | NZGS | NZHN | Ron Batchelor | Beechcraft Super King Air 350 (B350) | -78 ft/m | 138 nm | 00:41 | View | |
27SEP24 0550Z | NZAA | NZHN | Kissa | Airbus A320 neo (A20N) | -221 ft/m | 158 nm | 00:43 | View | |
18SEP24 2345Z | NZNR | NZHN | Kawfee | British Aerospace BAe-146-100 (B461) | -307 ft/m | 157 nm | 00:32 | View | |
15SEP24 0031Z | NZNR | NZHN | Rp | Cessna Skyhawk (C172) | -158 ft/m | 130 nm | 00:16 | View | |
02SEP24 1923Z | NZGS | NZHN | Dan Cooper | Honda HA-420 HondaJet (HDJT) | -75 ft/m | 166 nm | 00:37 | View | |
11AUG24 1601Z | NZNP | NZHN | Alain | De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter (DHC6) | -201 ft/m | 118 nm | 00:40 | View |